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Newell D. Wright

About Newell D. Wright

Newell D. Wright recently retired from North Dakota State University as a Professor of Marketing and International Business. Born in Provo and raised in Orem, Utah, he holds a PhD in marketing from Virginia Tech (1993) and an MBA (1987) and a BA (1985) in French literature from Brigham Young University. He has led or directed fifty-seven study-abroad programs worldwide since 1998 and has visited fifty-one countries, mostly with a group of students in tow. He is also a lifelong student of the Book of Mormon. He is married to the former Julie Gold of Abingdon, Virginia, and they are the parents of four children and the grandparents of twelve grandchildren.